DE@CAiSE'12: Workshop on Domain Engineering
In Conjunction with CAiSE’12

Submission deadline: February 26th, 2012

Event Date:                  June 26th, 2012

Event Location:           Gdansk, Poland

http://www.domainengineering.org/DE@CAiSE12/

Domain Engineering aims at developing, maintaining, and managing the creation and evolution of domains, which are areas of knowledge that use common concepts for describing phenomena, requirements, problems, capabilities, and solutions that are of interest to a specific set of stakeholders. Domain Engineering is used, researched, and studied in various fields, such as Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE), Domain-Specific Language Engineering (DSLE), and Conceptual Modeling & Knowledge Engineering (CMKE).

In SPLE, Domain Engineering deals with specifying, designing, implementing, and managing reusable assets, such as specification sets, patterns, and components, that may be suitable, after customization, adaptation, or even extension, to families of software products. The commonality and variability of different products are analyzed and represented usually in feature models or utilizing UML profiles.

In DSLE, Domain Engineering aims at designing and developing languages that support the terminologies of domains and at defining, implementing, and validating syntactic and semantic rules that enable combinations of terms.

In CMKE, the focus of Domain Engineering is on capturing, representing, analyzing and processing knowledge about the domain and how this knowledge can contribute to software engineering.

Domain Engineering methods and approaches have become of special interest to the Information Systems and Software Engineering communities for several reasons. These reasons include: the need to manage increasing requirements for variability of information and software systems (reflecting variability in customer requirements); the need to minimize accidental complexity when modeling the variability of a domain; and the need to obtain, formalize, and share expertise in different evolving domains. Furthermore, Domain Engineering as a discipline has practical significance as it can provide techniques and technologies that may help reduce time-to-market, product cost, and projects risks on one hand, and help improve product quality and performance on a consistent basis on the other hand.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of Domain Engineering in order to identify possible points of synergy, common problems and solutions, and visions for the future of the area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·         Conceptual foundations of Domain Engineering

·         Methods and techniques to support Domain Engineering

·         Semantics driven approaches to Domain Engineering

·         Product line lifecycle engineering

·         Development and management of domain assets

·         Domain-driven requirements engineering

·         Testing, modeling, and formal verification of domain and application artifacts

·         Application derivation (i.e., how to instantiate artifacts from domain artifacts)

·         Variability management and techniques that assist in identifying and eliminating spurious complexity

·         Domain-specific languages, frameworks, and architectures

·         Utilization of domain engineering as a means of modularization, reuse, validation, and knowledge management

·         Theoretical and empirical evaluation of domain engineering techniques

·         Case studies and practice reports related to domain engineering

·         Domain Engineering based software development processes

·         Integration of Domain Engineering techniques with systems development approaches

Submission Guidelines

Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a paper related to the workshop subject. The workshop will accept two types of submissions:

1.      Completed Research – this type of papers should include evidence to support the contribution (e.g. in the form of data analysis, proof of concept, or case studies) and discussion on research findings and their theoretical and practical significance. The paper should not exceed 10 pages (including references and appendices). Accepted completed research papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation (including questions & answers) during the workshop and will be published in Springer's LNBIP proceedings. 

2.      Uncompleted Research – this type of papers can report on research that is under way with preliminary results available at the time of the conference or include lucid and well-supported statements and suggestions on domain engineering, e.g., directions for the discipline, open questions, criticism on the state-of-the-art, and novel approaches. The paper should not exceed 5 pages (including references and appendices). Accepted research-in-progress papers will be allocated 15-20 minutes for presentation (including questions & answers) during the workshop and will be published in CEUR proceedings.

The two types of papers may refer to theoretical and/or practical issues and should be written in Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). As the workshop will apply double-blind reviews process, the papers should not indicate their authors. Papers should be submitted through the on-line system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=decaise12. 

Publication

The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, on its quality and on the potential to stimulate discussion in the workshop. Best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design. The special issue will include papers from all workshops, which will go through a regular review process, and will be managed by CAiSE'2012 workshops chairs.

Important dates

Declaration of intention to submit:      February 19^th, 2012 (through an email to the organizers)

Submission deadline:                           February 26^th, 2012

Notification of acceptance:                  March 23^rd, 2012

Camera-ready papers due:                   April 3^rd, 2012

Workshop:                                           June 26^th, 2012

Workshop Co-Chairs

Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel.

Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Tony Clark, Middlesex University, London, UK

Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada

Jorn Bettin, Sofismo, Switzerland

Sholom Cohen, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Workshop Program Committee

Mathieu Acher, University of Namur, Belgium

Kim Dae-Kyoo,  Oakland University, USA

Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Yishai Feldman, IBM Haifa Research Labs, Israel

Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil

Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium

Øystein Haugen, SINTEF, Norway

Timo Käkölä, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

David H. Lorenz, Open University, Israel

Parastoo Mohagheghi, SINTEF, Norway

Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Julia Rubin, IBM Haifa Research Labs, Israel

Lior Schachter, Open University, Israel

Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel

For more information on the workshop, please contact:

Iris Reinhartz-Berger

Department of Information Systems

University of Haifa, Carmel Mountain, Haifa 31905, Israel

Email: iris@is.haifa.ac.il

Phone: 972-4-8288502